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Ralph Lauren steps down, hands reins to Stefan Larsson
01 Oct 2015
Ralph Lauren, the quintessential American designer who built a fashion empire based on sweeping fantasies of country-club prep and the Wild West, is stepping down from his post as chief executive of the company
Fortis co-founder Shivinder Singh steps down to join spiritual organisation
24 Sep 2015
Singh (40) will join a spiritual organisation, Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), based in Beas, near Amritsar and become non-executive vice-chairman of Fortis with effect from 1 January 2016
Governor rejects Sanjay Dutt’s mercy plea
24 Sep 2015
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn quits over `Dieselgate’
24 Sep 2015
Martin Winterkorn, CEO of German carmaker Volkswagen AG, resigned on Wednesday amidst accusations that the car maker rigged US emission tests - the biggest scandal in its 78-year history
Leonardo DiCaprio joins fossil fuel divestment movement
23 Sep 2015
Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio has joined over 2,000 individuals and 400 institutions in pulling $2.6 trillion of investments out of fossil fuel companies
Cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya dies at 75
21 Sep 2015
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Sunday at around 9 pm. He was aged 75
Mamata says Netaji Bose didn’t die in 1945
19 Sep 2015
Some of these declassified intelligence intercepts suggest that in 1948-49 American and British intelligence agencies believed that Netaji was alive and that he played an important role in Communist uprisings in Southeast Asia
India could’ve been hardware leader, regrets Narayana Murthy
18 Sep 2015
IT doyen Narayan Murthy says wrong policies held back India’s hardware potential in the past, and the poor quality of college education is doing the same now
Apple insiders all praise for new Jobs biopic
16 Sep 2015
Steve Jobs, starring German-Irish stage and screen actor Michael Fassbender in the titular role, will debut at the New York Film Festival 3 October in advance of a wider release on 9 October in North America
Yahoo media head, Kathy Savitt to leave
12 Sep 2015
J Manjula becomes first woman DG at DRDO; heads electronics cluster
10 Sep 2015
An outstanding scientist, J Manjula has led Defence Avionics Research Establishment, a DRDO establishment, as a director since July 2014
J Manjula becomes first woman DG at DRDO; heads electronics cluster
10 Sep 2015
An outstanding scientist, J Manjula has led Defence Avionics Research Establishment, a DRDO establishment, as a director since July 2014
Steve Waugh launches property platform for NRIs
09 Sep 2015
Former Australia cricket captain Steve Waugh has entered the Indian real estate sector with with his investment banker friend Dean Honan
Michael Dell vows to support startups in India
08 Sep 2015
Ruling out making investments in smartphones, Dell said only one or two firms were making profits in it and quite a few of them were losing substantial money
Padmasree Warrior in race to head Twitter
04 Sep 2015
Former chief technology and strategy officer of Cisco Systems, and CTO of Motorola, Padmasree Warrior is in the race to lead Twitter as its new CEO
Volkswagen’s finance chief, Hans Dieter Poetsch to become next chairman
04 Sep 2015
The name of 64-year-old Hans Dieter Poetsch will be proposed for election to Vplkswagen's supervisory board at an extraordinary general meeting in November